MidTerm Exam Terms Flashcards
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator
Prince Henry was responsible for advances that would make exploration more successful. He greatly advanced Portugal’s exploration efforts.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
In 1519, Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese navigator, set out with a Spanish fleet to sail down the east coast of South America.
European explorers and settlers took plants and animals with them to the Americas. They also brought back a variety of new plants and animals to Europe, Asia and Africa. What is this transfer known as?
The Columbian Exchange
What is going all the way around the globe?
circumnavigate
A nonexistent path through North America that early explorers searched for that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean is what?
The Northwest Passage
Who was a French sailor that led France’s major exploration of North America? He made two trips to what is now Canada.
Jacques Cartier
What is a charter?
A charter is a document giving permission to start a colony.
The voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that enslaved Africans were forced to endure is called what?
The Middle Passage
Explain Jamestown.
Jamestown was the first colony in the United States; set up in 1607 along the James River in Virginia
Laws passed in the colonies to control slaves is called what?
slave codes
Who is the symbol of the struggle for religious freedom? This woman emigrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She hosted a bible study class that met in her home and began to question the teachings of local ministers.
Anne Hutchinson 1591-1643
The Navigation Acts of 1660 forbade what?
The Navigation Acts forbade colonists from trading specific items such as sugar and cotton with any country other than England.
The religious movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.
Great Awakening
After George Washington’s defeat in 1754 he surrendered and this began the start of what?
The French and Indian War
In 1764, Parliament passed the Sugar Act which set duties on what?
molasses and sugar imported by the colonists.
What is the document that was written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society an dsetting guidelines for self-government.
Mayflower Compact
This was a protest against the Tea Act in which a group of colonists boarded British tea ships and dumped more than 340 chest of tea into Boston Harbor. What is this called?
Boston Tea Party
Who said “There is something very absurd in supporting a continent to be perpetually (forever) goverened by an island.” This argument was against British rule over America.
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine’s 47-page pamphlet was distributed in Philadelphia in January 1776. What was it called?
Common Sense
Who was the author of the Declaration of Independence? What did it announce?
Thomas Jefferson was the author and it announced the colonies’ break from Great Britain
Colonists who chose to side with the British were known as
Loyalists
Who was the conquistador who left Cuba to sail to Mexico in 1519?
Hernan Cortes
A device that enabled navigators to learn their ships location by charting the position of the stars is called what?
astrolabe
In 1630 a fleet of ships carrying Puritan colonists left England for Massachusetts to seek religious freedom. These Puritans believed that they had made a covenant, or promise, with God to build an ideal Christian community. Who led the fleet of ships?
John Winthrop
